I was walking down the hall the other day when I heard one of the employees complaining about how much email they get. Apparently, this particular employee gets over 50 legitimate emails a day!

That got me thinking about how much I get so I kept my email for an entire week. Usually, I’ll delete anything I don’t need to keep and file those I do, but instead I kept a gnarly Inbox for 7 whole days.

When 7 days had passed I compiled a list of the daily emails I get:

20 emails from my direct boss
10 emails from each member of my team
5 emails from the Creative Director
10 emails from Velvet Hammer employees (SW manages their IT)
10 emails from the CEO of StreetWise
4 emails notifying me backups have happened on my server*
around 100 emails warning me about suspicous activities on all my servers combined (around 4*)
4 emails notifying me about log changes to my servers*
1 Windows SBS Server Performance Report
4 emails notifying me of system changes on my Linux servers (if something changes that is)
3 email inbox quarantine summaries from Postini
20+ bounceback emails from random email campaigns
around 20 emails notifying me about the firewall banning an IP address
Task Reminder from my companies collaboration system
4 emails notifying me about cPanel changes on my servers
3 Website Pulse Daily Monitoring Log emails
4 cron.daily notification emails for various cron scripts I run
2 emails notifying me the firewall tried to update itself and the status of the attempt
4 emails notifying me that yum tried to update itself
3 emails notifying me cPanel updated it’s license ping

By my count that’s over 200 legitimate emails I get on a daily basis. This doesn’t include spam or any of the abnormal emails I can get.

I’m sure this isn’t any kind of record or anything but the next time you’re thinking you have it bad just remember me 😊